Wahlenbergia lobelioides(L.f.) Link

WFO wfo-0000819710 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Wahlenbergia lobelioides, photographed by monkeyjodey
fig. a monkeyjodey, CC0 1.0 / 2022-04-03 / obs. 186060558
Wahlenbergia lobelioides, photographed by monkeyjodey
fig. b monkeyjodey, CC0 1.0 / obs. 186060590
Wahlenbergia lobelioides, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. c Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201703471
Wahlenbergia lobelioides, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. d Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201703513
Wahlenbergia lobelioides, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. e Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201703553
Wahlenbergia lobelioides, photographed by Alessia Guggisberg
fig. f Alessia Guggisberg, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201703594

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Native range 30 botanical countries

Regions where Wahlenbergia lobelioides is native: Algeria, Burkina, Cameroon, Canary Is., Cape Verde, Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Madeira, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Selvagens, Senegal, Socotra, Somalia, Sudan-South Sudan, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain AlgeriaBurkinaCameroonCentral African RepublicChadDjiboutiEgyptEritreaEthiopiaGuineaGuinea-BissauKenyaMaliMauritaniaMoroccoNigeriaSelvagensSenegalSomaliaSudan-South SudanTunisiaSaudi ArabiaItalySiciliaSpain Canary Is.Cape VerdeMadeiraSardegna
Native distribution of Wahlenbergia lobelioides, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Algeria ALG AFRICA
Burkina BKN
Cameroon CMN
Canary Is. CNY
Cape Verde CVI
Central African Republic CAF
Chad CHA
Djibouti DJI
Egypt EGY
Eritrea ERI
Ethiopia ETH
Guinea GUI
Guinea-Bissau GNB
Kenya KEN
Madeira MDR
Mali MLI
Mauritania MTN
Morocco MOR
Nigeria NGA
Selvagens SEL
Senegal SEN
Socotra SOC
Somalia SOM
Sudan-South Sudan SUD
Tunisia TUN
Italy ITA EUROPE
Sardegna SAR
Sicilia SIC
Spain SPA
Saudi Arabia SAU ASIA-TEMPERATE

Not drawn on the map: Socotra. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 33 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Campanopsis etbaica (Schweinf.) Kuntze
  • Campanopsis humilis Kuntze
  • Campanopsis lobeliodes Kuntze
  • Campanopsis riparia (A.DC.) Kuntze
  • Campanula humilis D.Dietr.
  • Campanula inconspicua Banks ex A.DC.
  • Campanula juncea hort. ex A.DC.
  • Campanula juncifolia hort. ex A.DC.
  • Campanula lobelioides L.f.
  • Campanula lobelioides Spreng.
  • Campanula nutabunda Guss.
  • Campanula parviflora Salisb.
  • Campanula riparia Leprieur & Perr. ex A.DC.
  • Cervicina lobelioides (L.f.) Druce
  • Cervicina pendula Druce
  • Hecale lobelioides (L.f.) Raf.
  • Laurentia etbaica Schweinf.
  • Lobelia broussonetia Bory
  • Lobelia canariensis Hort.Par. ex A.DC.
  • Lobelia minutiflora Pau
  • Roella cernua Brouss.
  • Wahlenbergia etbaica (Schweinf.) Vatke
  • Wahlenbergia humilis A.DC.
  • Wahlenbergia lobelioides var. gussonei Webb & Berth.

and 9 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.